“I am just stunned at how little anyone we've spoken to lately – whether they be senior administration officials, Trump advisers, or anyone else close to the decision-making process – can give me a straight answer about what the mission would be here, beyond the Mad King Donald just doing his thing…

US science is being turned over to Peter Thiel, who will kill it. Trump installed one longtime Thiel lieutenant as his science advisor. Now another Thiel lieutenant, Jim O'Neill, will head NSF. Both are the least-qualified ever, with NO science training. They're picked because they serve Thiel. 1/

Shiiit. Phil Specer (head of Xbox) is "retiring"... "effective Monday." Sarah Bond (Xbox #2 and heir apparent) is resigning. Asha Sharma --"President of Microsoft’s CoreAI product"-- is taking over. Xbox is dead. Skynet is taking over. www.ign.com/articles/phi...

The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.

NEW: Tom Homan declared last week the ICE surge in Minnesota was over + the drawdown of federal agents would carry on through this week. But ICE is still all over. “It certainly hasn’t stopped,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told me. "People are very much on edge." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

I just watched about 15 minutes of an intellectually disabled man speaking to the nation. A more dysfunctional man has never even looked at the WH.

can't help but feel like if you're a judge tasked with signing search warrants, that's a law you should already be familiar with.

After rage posting against the Supreme Court, Trump posted a pic of his bunker ballroom

US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all Middle East land

Attorney says Rep. Tony Gonzales coerced his late aide into a relationship and is "playing the role of a victim in a situation that he created" www.cbsnews.com/news/attorne...

"These tariffs have been in effect for almost a year. They have upended whole sectors of the U.S. & global economies. The fact that a president can illegally exercise such powers for so long & w/ such great consequences for almost a year means we’re not living in a functional constitutional system."

Even though the Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs are illegal, the criminal intent behind them hasn’t changed. Scott Bessent said, in so many words, that the theft of the American people will continue. As for the money already stolen, he said: “I got a feeling the American people won’t see it.”

Trump’s deportation push has resulted in 18,000+ challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. Claims in California and Texas account for about 40% of cases this year, a ProPublica analysis of filings found.

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

WATCH: We asked Bully Rep. Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood) about his ongoing efforts to undermine marriage equality He won’t admit he’s trying overturn Obergefell, but tells us he’d “be happy to” defend his latest bill before the Supreme Court

Is there a national health reporter out there who can help amplify what’s happening in Eugene, Oregon? We are the 2nd largest city in Oregon (180K+), home of the state’s flagship university, and we have NO HOSPITAL or EMERGENCY ROOM. @muckrack.com bit.ly/4aqvvwg

⚡️Ukraine liberates 300 square kilometers in southern counteroffensive, Zelensky tells AFP. "I won't go into too many details, but today I can congratulate our army first and foremost —all the defense forces — because as of today, 300 (square) kilometers have been liberated."

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to build a huge mega-prison in rural Arkansas has drawn major opposition, with some residents saying it's made them think differently about incarceration in the face of organizing. Now that's bleeding into a local election, as candidates vow to fight the governor. NEW:

Federal judges appointed new interim prosecutor in Eastern District of Virginia. And Trump Admin immediately fired him. Escalating a fight against the judiciary and separation of powers in America

A federal panel made up entirely of Trump appointees just greenlit his massive ballroom, reportedly larger than the White House itself. The panel received 2,000 public comments on the East Wing renovation. 99% were negative. They approved it anyway. Unanimously.

Right. The coverage shouldn’t be that the Roberts Court did the right thing today—but that it protected Trump, in clear violation of the law, for over a year. SCOTUS could and should have stopped the tariffs a year ago. Instead it allowed Trump lawlessness.

Not that we need any more evidence that Trump is doing ethnic cleansing, but the way this regime keeps pushing for random changes in green card processes, asylum, and TPS to suddenly make people undocumented drives home that none of this is about someone's legal status.

BREAKING: The federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia unanimously appointed longtime litigator James W. Hundley to serve as interim U.S. attorney on Friday — and the Trump Justice Department almost immediately fired him.

UPDATE: Remember when Monty Fritts confirmed to us women who get abortions should face execution? —> x.com/thetnholler/... Now Jody Barrett & Pody have a bill to make it the law in Tennessee😳: www.newschannel5.com/news/tenn-bi...

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

🚨BREAKING: In a decisive win for voters, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed the GOP legislature’s appeal in the state’s landmark redistricting case — clearing the way for a fairer congressional map to be used in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody. That’s 39 people who have died on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term. We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.

When media outlets defensively insist there’s no “evidence” of Trump’s “wrongdoing” in the Epstein matter, they’re misinforming the public, doing a disservice to the journalists uncovering this evidence, and helping Trump warp the meaning of this awful scandal. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-epst...

Today I conducted an oversight visit at the Whipple building. We were required to give 7 days notice. When we arrived, ICE had moved every detainee out of the facility. They don’t want us to see what’s really going on here. I won't stop pushing to hold ICE accountable. Minnesotans deserve answers.

I always thought the whole "they want you dead" thing was just hyperbole. But I guess this makes the entire raw milk, no vax, more asbestos stuff make a lot more sense.

Fetterman rips Democrats planning to protest Trump’s State of the Union & calls on them to respect Trump!

Cool to know that there are three votes on SCOTUS for *anything* Trump does. That's not concerning at all.

My biggest takeaway from today’s SCOTUS ruling is that Donald Trump was mentioned over one million times in the Epstein files, yet somehow no one is holding him accountable.

Remember this, next time one of three pops off about judicial activism or originalism. It’s all a con.

Wow — Trump’s ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says Israel shouldn’t have to pay a single penny to rebuild Gaza, and is instead owed “reparations” Unbelievable stuff

For those of you who said I don’t understand the Board of Peace, let’s go through it together shall we? youtu.be/37EZOFAqFE8

This is a win for veterans everywhere. The fact that this was proposed in the first place was an insult to every person who has ever put on the uniform. We will continue to hold this administration accountable to make sure our promises to those who served are kept, period.

Justice Kavanaugh openly worries that refunding billions in illegally collected tariffs will "be a mess." The Court wasn't worried about the mess IT created when it struck down Roe. And the Court wasn't too worried about the mess IT created with the half-assed Citizens United decision.

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself. A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT

Add another 🇺🇸 citizen to ICE’s kill list. Ruben Ray Martinez (23) www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fa...

Trump: "I want to be a good boy"

The NY Times dutifully reporting that the Supreme Court sided with Trump only 42% of the time and with Biden 54% of the time sort of leaves out the necessary context that Biden was doing normal, completely legal presidential stuff, and Trump was doing insane crimes

I can only speak for my own views on court packing, but this is a really gross misrepresentation. I want to pack it w 99 people, not 21, on chaotically rotating panels of 10, so there’s no median vote on the panel and impossible to know in advance who to bribe.